Police in Busoga North on Wednesday arrested Patrick Muyingo, the director of Rise and Shine Primary School in Namukooge village, Namugongo sub-county, Kaliro District, for failing to register candidates for the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE). Muyingo is currently detained at Kaliro Central Police Station pending further investigations. Reports indicate that Muyingo had tasked parents with […]
Leaders in Buvuma islands have petitioned Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to devise safer and faster means of ferrying final examination papers for candidates in the 52 islands forming the district, than transporting them aboard local wooden fishing boats. They argued that because examinations are held in the wet month when the sea is very […]
More than 100 candidates from Luweero district have missed the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), which started yesterday. On Wednesday morning, Primary Leaving Examination candidates across the country began the examinations by writing mathematics papers. In the afternoon, the candidates wrote the Social Studies paper. In Luweero, 16,090 candidates registered to sit examinations at 180 UNEB […]
A 14-year-old Primary Seven pupil of Butenga Church of Uganda Primary School in Bukomansimbi district has given birth to a bouncing baby girl just a day to writing her final Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers. The girl is said to have experienced labour pains on Monday evening and she gave birth at around 7:00pm from Butenga […]
The National Unity Platform (NUP) Principal, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has mobilized food to feed the starving government sponsored students of Makerere University. Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine has today served over 300 students with a befitting meal and on top of that packed for them at least ten kilo grams of maize floor and […]
Giving an example, Sempa said that last year, a student Caleb Tumanyawe died from ulcers shortly before graduation; the money lending business has arisen placing the students in danger, while a young woman is said to have posted on X, that female students are in sex work to survive. Following a complaint of failure by […]
Guild elections for the 2024/2025 academic year for Kyambogo University have been suspended indefinitely. The University has also instituted an adhoc committee to investigate the conduct of the electoral process and the earlier petitions by candidates challenging the conduct of the exercise. A letter from the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Eli Katunguka Rwakishaya to all students […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged the people of East Africa and Africa at large to use their similarity and promote Swahili as a powerful tool for economic integration and unifying the continent. According to the President Museveni, having many tribes and clans that are similar is a blessing and the factor can be used […]
Kyambogo University’s 2024/25 Guild elections have taken a fresh twist with students petitioning the Executive Secretary of the Uganda National Students Association (UNSA) to prevail upon university authorities to immediately take relevant steps for the elections to be held. A nine-man cabinet of candidates for the elections has been issued and, according to the EC […]
By Mike-Musisi Musoke As a component of the campus transformation currently underway, Uganda Christian University (UCU) has displayed the rebranded format of the graduation gowns, which are taking effect beginning with the second part of this year’s graduation slated for this Friday October 25, 2024 at the main campus. Giving a media brief about the Friday […]